Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "Joe Rogan | The Nazi's Almost Took Over the World w/Annie Jacobsen" video.

@timhowell6929 It was a long shot, but I think they had a shot in 1941. They weren't fighting the US then, the UK had very little capacity to take the war to the Germans at that point, and the USSR was very near the point of collapse by that autumn. I think a scenario where the Wehrmacht performs just a little more efficiently, the Bolshevik government collapses and Germany gets control of all the oil and grain it needs, Japan takes advantage of that and invades Siberia instead of going after the British, Dutch, and US colonies, there's no Pearl harbor and the US has nothing to galvanize its public into joining the war, and Britain is left without allies and without any realistic way of ever invading the continent is a plausible one. After the failure of Barbarossa and the losses Germany took and the entry of the US into the war I would agree that a German military victory was impossible.
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@cybervoid8442 And Soviet partisans love to ignore how heavily dependent the USSR was on American and British aid - not so much for weapons (although the amount of those transferred to the Soviets was enormous) as for trucks and other transportation equipment and food, including packaged rations. The food was particularly critical after the Soviets lost the breadbasket of the Ukraine. After 1942, and arguably after December 1941, the Germans had no chance of knocking the Soviets out of the war, but without that aid the Soviets would have had little chance of pushing the Germans back as far and as fast as they did. Their offensive would have bogged down due to logistical problems the same way the German offensives did.
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And that night Kim's dogs feasted well.
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He didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
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It was a very new and fragile democracy, though.
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@tomino133 That is true, but it is also true that a substantial number of people in the UK government were in favor of making peace under the threat of German bombing. If they had had their way and Hitler had been free to turn 100% of his attention to the USSR, without any realistic chance of the US entering the European war, the outcome might have been different. The OP's point about the shallowness of Germany's military might is also true, but the USSR had also been very badly weakened by Stalin's purges and genocides and it came much closer to collapse in 1941 than a lot of people realize.
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